Inner music example type: Biography
Touching the Void
Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates’s near fatal descent after climbing the 6,344-metre peak Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. Within it, he describes being delirious after a climbing accident and has a negative experience imagining Boney M’s ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’.
My Brain
Dave Barry humorously reflects on how music embeds itself in memory, often more vividly than facts or names. He notes that TV theme songs can involuntarily play in his mind and interrupt daily tasks, even when he struggles to recall everyday details. The piece playfully illustrates how musical memory is both powerful and peculiar, shaping ... Read more
Giving up the Ghost
At the start of her memoir, Giving up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel describes how inner music features at the early stage of a migraine. “It may be that a tune will lodge in my head like a tic and bring the words tripping in with it, so I am forced to live my life ... Read more